Fed: Fires destroy historic Mount Stromlo Observatory
By Sandra O'Malley
CANBERRA, Jan 19 AAP - Irreplaceable equipment worth millions of dollars was destroyedwhen the Canberra bushfires ravaged the historic Mount Stromlo Observatory.
Research officer Vince Ford, a 38-year veteran of the observatory, told AAP staff weregiven 20 minutes' notice to evacuate as a fire storm on Mount Stromlo caught authoritiesby surprise.
A single road through pine forests links the observatory, established by the Commonwealthin 1924, with suburban Canberra.
"There's no way we could have saved it," Mr Ford said.
The fire storm destroyed …
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